SEATTLE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Washington will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

BOISE - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Idaho will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous way to...

Acting Special Agent In Charge Thomas Hinojosa will be participating in a National Prescription Take Back Press Conference, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., at the DEA Houston Field Office, located at 1433 West Loop South, in the 1 st floor training room. He, along with invited guest Harris County...

PORTLAND, ORE. - - Pharmaceutical drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The majority of teenagers get pharmaceuticals from family and friends - and the home medicine cabinet. The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its community partners throughout Oregon will provide to the public a safe, free and anonymous...

ATLANTA, GA. - A few weeks prior to the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back (Saturday, April 30, 2011) 5,146 (25% more sites than were established for the event last fall) nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse and theft. The free event will...

A NCHORAGE, AK - On April 22, 2011, Ricky Alan Reese, 52, a resident of Anchorage, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and attempted possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Reese was convicted by a trial jury in February 2011. At the time...

SULLIVAN CITY, TX - Former Sullivan City Police Chief Hernan Guerra has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for drug-trafficking, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. United States District Judge Randy Crane sentenced...

BOISE, IDAHO - - Cosme Jorge Flores, 44, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced on April 19, 2011, in Coeur d'Alene to 42 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana. Additionally, Flores was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, perform...

BOISE - - - Six members of a large Treasure Valley methamphetamine distribution ring were sentenced in federal court in Boise this week. All pled guilty in January to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine or possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Jose Gallardo-Dedios, 37, a Mexican national, was sentenced to 188...

ATLANTA, GA. - A few weeks prior to the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back (Saturday, April 30, 2011) more than 4,700 (hundreds more sites than were established for the event last fall) nationwide have joined the effort that seeks to prevent pill abuse and theft. The free...